The Importance of Color Accuracy for CPG Packaging Brands

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Packaging: The Face of Your Brand

Move from “On Sale” to “Sold Out”
It only takes a shopper 2 to 7 seconds to make a purchase decision. We call it the First Moment of Truth. When your brand’s packaging comes together on the shelf, everything must match, from flexible pouches to labels to cartons to stand up displays. If the packaging color isn’t just right, it could affect the customer’s perception of the product inside.

Why Brand Color Goes Wrong

In a traditional print workflow, brands use physical standards to specify color, and printers visually evaluate accuracy. This can lead to an error stacking effect like making a copy of a copy. When packaging comes together on the shelf, each color shift can influence the First Moment of Truth.

Digital standards eliminate error stacking to strengthen brand equity on the shelf by:

Providing suppliers with identical color references,
Removing the subjectivity of visual evaluation, and
Instilling trust that color will match between production locations.

Digital Color Solutions for CPG Packaging

Stop wondering where your brand color went wrong. With a digital color workflow, you’ll see how your brand colors will look on different substrates, during the design phase. Digital color empowers your suppliers to reduce their environmental impact, too.

Digital Color
Sets Clear Expectations
Builds Brand Equity
Promotes Sustainability Goals

The Solution is Digital Color

Digital color empowers everyone at every stage – from design and proofing through ink formulation and printing – to use the exact color specified by the brand.

A digital color workflow is a simple and efficient way to improve color consistency on the shelf, while reducing expensive and wasteful back and forth between design and execution. Watch the video to learn more.

Digital Color Sets Clear Expectations

Leading brands who have adopted a digital color workflow:

Clearly communicate color intent and expectations,

Monitor print quality virtually without site visits,

Establish better relationships with suppliers,

Run more sustainable print programs, and

Get to market faster.

Digital Color Builds Brand Equity

Struggling to ensure design intent is realized everywhere your products appear? The framework of a successful digital color workflow, a Digital Print Quality Program (PQP):

Establishes clear and realistic expectations to empower print suppliers around the world.

Utilizes digital data to make fast decisions and achieve organic improvement,

Decreases carbon footprint to achieve sustainability goals,

And most importantly, instills trust in your brand.

Digital Color Promotes Sustainability Goals

Today’s consumers choose brands that prioritize sustainability. A digital print program removes the guesswork, rejections, and reprints that generate waste in a traditional print quality program. Digitizing brand color establishes an efficient process that has a positive impact on sustainability by:

Unifying expectations across the packaging supply chain,

Achieving better color on new materials, and

Getting to market faster.

Learn How to Manage Color Accuracy

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Brands that Trust X-Rite Pantone

Testimonials

Hear how a few of our Global Brand Customers use digital color to manage print quality and achieve up to 30% fewer claims. Click each to learn more.

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Soap & Glory Uses X-Rite Digital Solutions for Color Success

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Asda Implements X-Rite Pantone’s Redesigned ColorCert ScoreCard Server

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L&E International, Ltd Implements X-Rite End-to-End Digital Color Ecosystem in Asia Pacific

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PantoneLIVE and ColorCert support Dongguan Modern Paper Company to Streamline Production and Achieve Faster Color Matching

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How to Protect Your Brand Identity & Equity on Packaging: Learn Best Practices from a Leading Brand

This webinar will demonstrate how X-Rite’s digital color solutions helped Alcon establish a digital Print Quality Program to achieve consistent color between global suppliers and retain brand integrity on the shelf.

Speak with a Brand Packaging Color Expert

Our Brand Color Experts help some of the world’s biggest brands achieve consistent color across different packaging types and global locations. We can help you, too.

Color Accuracy for CPG Packaging Brands

Packaging: The Face of Your Brand